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Let's take a listen. My name is Tyler Hamilton. I live here in Missoula, Montana. Grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Great family.
Older brother, older sister. Love the outdoors and love to spend time out in nature. First was my love for skiing that kind of got me excited being outdoors and became a ski racer. After an accident with the University of Colorado ski team, I broke my back and then started my cycling career kind of by accident. It happened fast. I was a bit of a late bloomer in cycling, but you know, I've always had like a high pain threshold and I think I was born born with it.
I don't know. My parents are tough. My grandparents were tough. And so I think that was the biggest asset that I had as a as a bike racer. Just, you know, that never give up mentality and just, you know, don't listen to the pain. Growing up in Marblehead, Massachusetts in the 70s was pretty awesome.
I was born in 71. Yeah, I mean, my parents didn't really put many demands on my brother or sister at all. You know, I mean, they're like just trying to do well in school and working hard. They like just competing in sports if we were interested in it. But whether or not we were successful in sports, it didn't matter. It didn't matter. You know, the most important thing for them was, you know, being honest, being a good sport and just being, you know, transparent.
My dad said if we did have a family question, probably be, you know, honesty. And, yeah, I got in trouble here and there. But it was I got in a lot of trouble when I was dishonest.
A lot of trouble. It was really exciting to get my first pro contract. I signed it in what, the fall of 1994. It was the, uh, the original postal team. It was under a different title sponsor then, but it was original U.S. Postal Team and it was under the sponsor of Montgomery Bell.
The next year, 1996, it became the U.S. Postal Team. I thought I had no business, you know, racing professionally, but obviously people believed in me. And I got a call from Tom Weisel, the head of Montgomery Securities and the leader of the team. Yeah, he offered me a contract. I think it was $30,000 back then.
And at the time when he made the phone call, I was painting my neighbor's house to make extra money to just make ends meet. And I thought it was just going to be, you know, one year, maybe two years of doing this and then had to finish up college and get a real job and do the nine to five thing. But next thing I know, I'm on the start line in the Tour de France, which I thought was way beyond anything that I could possibly do. Fast forward two years from there, we're trying to win the Tour de France. And that was with Lance Armstrong.
That was in 99. But yeah, I mean, we were kind of the bad news bears of cycling in the early years, 97, 98, even 99 when Lance won. You know, we were a small budget team.
Most teams have big bus, big shiny buses. We had like two rented little campers would stuff all nine riders into both of those and staff members and won again in 2000, won again in 2001 and with Lance. And then at that point, I was, I felt like I could see myself in the same role. I could look back three years and look ahead three years and see myself doing the same exact thing, which is being like a domestique, a workhorse for Lance in the Tour.
So it wasn't a bad thing, but I was sure that if I stayed in that role, I would definitely regret it someday and regret the chance of going off and maybe trying for myself, seeing what I could do. You know, the doping in the sport of cycling. I mean, I remember hearing about it back in probably like 1994 when I was in the US national team.
And then first year pro in 1995. I remember hearing a little bit about it, but every once in a while you'd read like a small blurb and it was like, doping was happening over in Europe. You know, it wasn't happening stateside, but I didn't really realize it until I got to the highest ranks in 1997 when we did the Tour de France for the first time. And that's kind of when I kind of gave into it. A team doctor came into my room for a few months into the season.
We just finished a really difficult five or six-day stage race in southern Spain. I was just like a starfish on the bed, laying on the bed. And the team doctor walked in and told me like how proud he was of me, but that I had to start taking care of my body. And you know, that's when it happened. He was wearing this black fishing vest and pulled out a little red egg-shaped capsule.
He told me what it was and he told me that it was testosterone and what I needed to do. So that's how it started. I didn't want to be, I didn't want to participate in any of that, but I feel like at that level, that was, it was either say yes to it. And at that point, I knew a lot of my teammates were not going to be able to participate in that. And I didn't want to say yes to it. And at that point, I knew a lot of my teammates were doping.
It was a hard decision, but I, but I made the decision really quick. And then I thought about the consequences of it, like almost daily. It was also like, he was inviting me into the, onto like the A team, basically. You know, it was like the team within the team. Like before that, I felt like I was on the B team just trying to prove myself. And then all of a sudden I think the team saw that I was talented enough and they believed in me enough, saw that I was hungry enough. And that's when I kind of got invited onto the, whatever you could call it.
We didn't have an A and B team, but hypothetical A team. And, and that was a couple of months away from riding my first tour de France. And so that's, you know, I was like, okay, I'm being invited onto this team.
I need to, even though I know it's wrong, I need to take this opportunity. So, so it started with the red egg testosterone. And then I don't know if a month later, my first injection of EPO, which raises your red blood cell count, but you really wouldn't feel it. You really wouldn't feel anything.
It was just a small little prick under your skin. And then, but if you did it consistently, you know, a few times a week over three, four weeks, eventually you'd feel a little bit of a difference, like, you know, going uphill felt a little bit more comfortable riding a little bit faster at the same heart rate. And yeah, you could feel the difference.
I mean, I mean, out of all the things I did, that was the biggest game changer, 100% EPO. Yeah. I mean, within cycling, it was a bit of an arms race. I mean, doping was prevalent.
I mean, at first I didn't really know how prevalent it was. And then I quickly realized, yeah, it wasn't just myself and a few of my teammates on postal. It was every team was every team was doing it. It was rampant. And, you know, riders are changing teams on a yearly basis.
Directors change teams, team doctors change teams. So like in general, the secrets were out, you know, when I first started doping in 1997, I mean, the teams would travel with it to the races, divvy it up to riders and then send them a home with it in a little like care package. So it was very open wild west days. They weren't worried about getting caught, you know, and then things came like kind of cracking down. What in the 98 season? What that's when they had the Festina affair. They caught it French team. I think it was at the Belgian border crossing over. And it was one of the staff members had a carload of performance and instant drugs.
Last night, Jean-Marie Leblanc, the director general of the Tour de France, issued a statement saying that Team Festina, the number one team in the world, has been removed from this year's tour. Now, this comes on the heels of an admission by the lawyer for Bruno Roussel, the team manager, that there was a doping plan in place for the use of performance enhancing drugs under strict medical supervision. And that's when riders went to jail. People came became a lot more secretive. People just seemed like they just became a lot more worried. The EPO test came out and the team doctors quickly figured out how to beat it and how to still take EPO without getting caught. And that meant like kind of smaller type doses and maybe a little bit more consistently. Yeah.
And then under the skin, it goes through your body, clears through your body quicker if it was in the vein instead of under the skin. Yeah. All these little tricks that didn't like most cyclists wouldn't know this, but like all the doctors knew and then they knew how to beat the test. So like before you even thought about it, there was handing you a cheat sheet basically. And you're listening and you're listening to Tyler Hamilton tell a heck of a story about his life in cycling, his family, and so much more, including how doping came to be and how it became just well a part of cycling life. I love what he said about his parents and their motto, the family crest, be honest. I got in the most trouble when I wasn't honest.
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It's really important to do your taxes, right? Listen to Grown Up Stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And we continue with our American stories and former Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton's story. Let's pick up where we last left off. There were a few times during my career when yeah, I knew I wasn't clear to take a test and when they had anti-doping out of competition at anti-doping tests like that's when things became a lot more difficult. One time I remember I was back home in my hometown of Marblehead and we got my wife and I at the time got a knock on the door. It was a pretty loud knock and it sounded like the knock you didn't want to hear, so instead of opening that door we just hit the deck. Stayed low and stayed quiet and basically avoided a test.
You were able to get, at the time, I think you were able to have two missed tests before you got in trouble. Being a teammate with Lance was, I mean I would say it was a challenge. He was the boss, he was the unofficial boss of the team. He had more power than even our director for sure.
So yeah, that came with consequences. He was the boss and he laughed at his jokes. You didn't ever talk over him and you tried to sympathize with him when he was having a bad day or when things weren't going great. It was stressful because you kind of always had to be in your toes and when you weren't and you maybe were like in his eyes a little bit disrespectful or weren't paying enough attention then yeah things happen sometimes and it wasn't always the funnest. But yeah, but he also brought a lot of energy to the team.
He had tons of energy for sure. He was always making up funny sayings and calling, he liked to call a lot of people out you know with the exception of himself maybe, but he called a lot of people out. You know sometimes that was fun but a lot of times it wasn't. You know just bullying and you know if a rider went too fast it was oh not normal, pan normal as they would say not normal you know.
But yeah, I mean we were all riding too fast at times. Eventually my career, yeah I believe it was in 2002, 2003. I worked with a doctor by the name of Ufe Manafuentes. We called him Ufe. He was basically my blood doping doctor.
He'd extract blood, store it for you like a lot of other cyclists and athletes and then reinfuse it back into you when your body was depleted. So we'd usually text back and forth. Rarely would we talk to each other on the phone but we definitely spoke in code a lot. So you know to give a blood bag you're going to give a present. Sometimes I have a present to give to you. I maybe say that in a text message and I do remember this one time I texted him like hey Ufe I need to give you a bike. Meaning a bag of blood basically and he took that literally took that and said oh so great I need a new bike and yeah I kind of got myself into a little bit of a pigeon hole and but you know what I had an extra training bike I think I believe it was a Cervelo and yeah that made its way to Ufe Manafuentes.
After that I didn't promise him anything else didn't want to say I'm getting I'm going to give you a car. So yeah I mean I've had all sorts of problems with my teeth due to me grinding down grinding them down during my career during painful moments. The first big accident I had where I started grinding severely was in the 2002 Giro d'Italia bombing down a descent and the pins on my cassette on the back wheel snapped off and I it's basically the same effect as like breaking your chain. So I was sprinting out of a quarter and that happened and I went flying over my handlebars landed on my shoulder and I didn't find out till the day after the race ended you know two and a half weeks later that I had a that broke basically the top of my arm in my in my shoulder socket. So yeah I spent the rest of the race in a ton of pain whether it was riding whether it was on my bike or off the bike or even sleeping I was grinding my teeth constantly grinding grinding grinding. The same thing happened the next year in the 2003 Tour de France. I crashed on stage one in a mass crash and broke my collarbone continued in the race did the same thing ground my teeth the whole way. I finished fourth overall and won a stage that off season I went to see the dentist and yeah that then I got it to have my whole mouth reconstructed all caps on every tooth so it's been a process and actually in about an hour I got to go to the dentist to get a new cap replacement so sometimes people say was it worth it to keep going you know I got a lot of a lot of people praise me for keep keeping going in the Tour de France in 03 and it seemed like I got a lot of attention back in the United States and uh and I didn't really realize until I got back to my home town of Marlotte, Massachusetts and uh did like a huge parade for me and a couple thousand people came out and they gave me the key to the town yeah you know from the outside it looked really glamorous and you know how lucky for me but you know on the inside I was really struggling and there I was having to like smile and you know speak in front of you know thousands of people there in my hometown and probably a month later I was diagnosed with depression at the hot really at that peak of my career. So I had this relationship with this deviant doctor Ufimiano Fuentes he uh it was the 2004 Tour de France you know he texts back and forth arranged the meeting where he's going to drop off a blood bag and I'm going to infuse a you know a bag of my blood that I'd you know given to him maybe a month or two before and they came to my hotel room I got the blood infusion and then probably about an hour later I started feeling kind of hot feverish and then I went to the bathroom and I went to um I looked down and my urine was was like black like filled with like dead red blood cells so that was kind of a scary moment for me you know I didn't know I didn't know what I figured right I figured right away like oh it was they gave me a my blood bag had gone bad it probably had gotten too warm or had been affected and you know the blood cells had died and then it was reinfused into me so it was uh I mean I was lucky I didn't die really and I continued on the race but it was uh it was definitely an eye-opening moment like you know the system we were in was certainly not perfect. You know another time I was after I basically gave a bag of blood I was rushing out of the Madrid airport where Uffinano Fuentes lived and I was heading back to my home in Girona Spain and I was really rushed to to catch a flight and I donated a bag of blood it's a big needle that they put in and then you know I quickly held pressure on my arm for a few seconds but then I had to go I had to go to catch my flight and so I ran out to the street was hailing a cab with one arm and then I looked down and saw the arm that had just you know given the blood like it was my my sleeve was completely red so you know the the hole from the extraction needle hadn't closed and but there I was you know like you know on a busy street in Madrid you know in one hand I'm like holding a cell phone with like code names and numbers the other hands covered in blood and you know it was another it was another moment where I'm like what am I doing this is crazy this is crazy and you're listening to Tyrell or Hamilton tell one heck of a story the secret race inside the hidden world of the Tour de France doping cover-ups and winning at all costs it's available at Amazon and all the usual suspects my goodness the life of living with these anti-doping tests the regimes that got set up the protocols the daily practices that knock on the door at home with his wife where he just ducked for cover and of course what it was like to work for someone who would drive you to this the way Lance Armstrong did and the way everybody did frankly can't blame Lance for the anti-doping machine you can blame the industry itself and then of course that recirculation of his own blood and calling the bags bikes he had secret code words and then blood infusions and it's so bizarre so bizarre and one day he wakes up and he's wondering how did I get into this by the way it's happened all of us at some point in our life more than likely something you didn't want to do you ended up doing when we come back more of the story of Tyler Hamilton former olympic gold medalist here on Our American Stories hi it's Jenny Garth we all know the importance of taking care of our physical and mental health but what about our sexual health I've been there feeling totally stuck when it comes to my libido that's why I started taking Addie and let me tell you I've seen firsthand what a difference it can make in how you feel Addie is the only FDA approved pill clinically proven to help certain pre-menopausal women have more interest in sex have more satisfying sex and lower the stress from low libido Addie has helped hundreds of thousands of women get their drive back including me talk to your doctor or visit addyi.com to learn more about Addie the little pink pill individual results may vary Addie or flibanserin is for pre-menopausal women with acquired generalized hypoactive sexual desire disorder HSDD who have not had problems with low sexual desire in the past who have had low sexual desire no matter the type of 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their amazing consultants who are there for us with their expert advice and support they'll be there for you too go to fergusonhome.com to shop the latest styles from top brands like kohler or find a showroom location near you hi i'm matt and i'm leah and we're from the grown-up stuff podcast and just in time for tax season on this week's episode we're chatting with cpa lisa green lewis about how small businesses can tackle their taxes using turbo tax business a forb study mentioned that a whopping 93 percent of small businesses overpay their taxes and 17 percent of gen zers believed that you could write off any expense as a business expense so can't blame them it's really important to do your taxes right listen to grown-up stuff on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your favorite podcasts grown-up stuff and we continue with our american stories and former olympic gold medalist and teammate of lance armstrong tyler hamilton let's pick up where we last left off so let's see 2004 september 2004 i was in the middle of the tour of spain another three week they call it grand tours and um had a positive doping test my life quickly spiraled out you know down downward very fast and you know kicked off the team really the cycling world turned that back to me and yeah i went through yeah went through divorce went through just hard hard hard times you know the heavy blanket i was i felt like i had a heavy blank out on me almost at all times yeah tried to make a comeback and that was you know my name was now black i wasn't welcome back to the peloton most teams didn't want me riders who i know 100 that doped you know wouldn't even talk to me what got me out of the doldrums was it was telling the truth and that that was like day one of like my new life i was uh received a subpoena to come in and answer questions about the u.s postal service cycling team and lance armstrong in front of a federal grand jury in los angeles that was in i believe 2010 very few people knew the truth and there i was in front of i don't know 12 jury members and i sat i stood there for like seven hours and told the truth and when i got out of that courtroom i knew from that moment on like the truth is my way forward so it felt so good to tell the truth and you know from the very beginning to the very end and that's kind of where it started for me like when i exited that court i walked outside and i felt like i when i exited that court i walked outside and i felt like i just shed like 100 pounds 100 pound backpack gone just felt free not not completely free i knew that i knew there was a lot of work to be done but i was like all right this was you know day day one of the rest of my life um so yeah what was this 2011 it was in the middle of this federal investigation they were investigating the u.s postal service cycling team and they're also investigating lance armstrong i was living in boulder colorado at the time and i was invited to do a charity event up in aspen so my uh my colleague jim capra and i drove up there together and on our way up i do remember him like hey i'm gonna just because he knew lance lived up there and there's a big federal investigation going on and we didn't need to cross paths so i was like okay i'm going to cross paths so he i think he googled what lance was and turns out he was on a on a charity ride on the east coast so it's great okay we're you know smooth sailing so that night we're uh out at dinner with a group of people maybe 12 people you know i got up to use the restroom i had and i had to walk through like a dimly lit bar area so on my return from the restroom just out of like a hand just reaches out and stops me in my tracks and i look over and boom there's lance armstrong nostrils flaring you know you can only flare your nostrils really if you're angry it's hard to do it just fake it so i knew he was pissed he got right in my face he had his little posse around him and uh yeah he told me he's gonna make my life a living hell and both in the courtroom and out of the courtroom so you know that's called witness intimidation uh you know i told him hey let's go speak outside one-on-one instead of you know let's leave your posse here or let me go grab some of my friends and keep you know make this even but he didn't want anything to do with it asked him also like a quiet room to speak he didn't want to do that either but he just kind of chastised me in front of this his uh his gang so yeah i mean i straight away had to let let the uh federal investigators know and you know but you know unfortunately the the videotape in the restaurant cash cash get get deleted or was broken somehow so none of that none of that really um went anywhere but yeah it was that was the truth that's what happened you know i'm sure today lance probably i was you know thought he found out from the owner of the restaurant that i was there and like he came he flew back from the east coast and came straight in and you know approached me so you know i'm sure today he regrets that i would think so but yeah that wasn't one of his best days yeah it was a weird time i was living in boulder then and i mean i baseball bats at every doorway people had their eyes on me and and that was and that was confirmed by the fbi soon thereafter um i got an invitation to speak with 60 minutes and that was uh you know everything i said to the in front of the grand jury was sealed so the only way like about that information would go to the public is if the case continued and i knew most likely it was going to get shut down just due to like who they were investigating you know there's a lot of people that were there's a lot of power there and it did get shut down but i knew the truth i had to be open and honest so still the public didn't know the truth and so yeah i chose to chose to speak to 60 minutes and they gave me like a double segment so like almost 40 minutes worth and that was really that my first time telling the whole truth or the part of the truth to the you know to the world or anyone who's listening that's the first time my parents kind of heard the whole truth you know i gave my warning the day before it aired on 60 minutes that was the first time i told my parents the truth so yeah i took i got sat my parents down my brother and my sister and yeah told them pretty much look the whole truth from the very beginning to the very end you know it was brutal you know that was one of the most difficult things i've ever done so but yeah they forgave me and you know they understand that people make mistakes and you know my dad tells me today that he's more proud of me you know for what i've done off the bike than on the bike that still wasn't enough it was you know with commercials and all that it's like maybe 30 35 minutes of the truth but there's a lot of a lot of the truth that i still hadn't told so that's when i decided to write a book so i got a i luckily had a great co-writer by the name of dan coil and we spent almost two and a half years writing a book together and one of the hardest things i've ever done but like one of the proudest you know i'm really proud of doing that it was almost like therapy really so yeah the secret race i wrote a book and back in 2012 uh won awards sports sport book awards and yeah it was uh yeah i was very surprised and man straight away there was so much forgiveness almost too much because i went from being a black sheep to like maybe praise a little bit too much so i didn't i struggled with that too which is kind of weird if you think about it but it felt i just felt a lot lighter and i and i did feel really bad for lance i know he had a lot of deep dark secrets i knew he was gonna fight to the very end to you know keep those secrets from not coming out and yeah i felt sympathy for him he was he was backed up into a real deep hole you know or to the edge of the cliff and it was like either tell the truth or or jump and i'm glad he told the truth you know what he did on oprah i thought was great you know not not everyone loved it but i thought those first like 10 questions the first the yes no questions on oprah when he admitted to his p-e-d use like i thought that was great and you know that's all sure people wanted to hear more details and we didn't get a lot of that but you know the big questions were answered and you know he dove for a lot of his a lot of his career you know like a lot of us so um and i honestly think i'm sure he's a better person today because of it all yeah i'm certain life's changed a lot for me and i'm newly married again got married in december two step beautiful stepchildren and then my own i have my own son about eight months ago so uh it's been it's been a really great experience i love being a dad and a stepdad let's say i work for a money manager down in boulder colorado so i love helping people you know helping people manage some money in a better way so you get a lot of positive feedback and it makes you feel good for sure my wife knows she knows about my past obviously and you know i've told our two stepchildren the tent he's one's ten and one's eight you know they know they know my my past our little guy who's eight months you know maybe a few more years for that but people need to hear the story like how things get a little blurry when you set your mind on a goal and like but don't get off track and i got off track and it's you got to be honest about it and you got to tell the younger generation make sure that you know they don't make a mistake like you did and a terrific job on the production editing and storytelling by our own Greg Hengler and a special thanks to Tyler Hamilton his book the secret race inside the hidden world of the Tour de France doping cover-ups and winning at all costs go to amazon for the usual suspects and pick up the book and there he was on that day of the positive doping test my life spiraled down fast kicked off the team divorced 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